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March 30, 2021 Uncategorized

Column names you should NOT use

We all know from our data modelling days… (Sidenote: Remember those days? You know…when we used to think about good

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February 9, 2021 Uncategorized

Expanded TYPE definitions for PL/SQL 21c

There has always been that odd conflict between the language you use for SQL versus the language you use for

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January 15, 2021 Uncategorized

PL/SQL in 21c gets amazing new loop iterators

“It’s a dead language” people said. “There’s never anything new” people said. Well, let me serve those people a slice

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November 5, 2020 Uncategorized

Updating my APEX 20.2 installation

One of (or should I say “another of”!) the very cool features of Application Express (APEX) is that by being

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August 25, 2020 Uncategorized

How to do a GRANT on an entire schema

TL;DR: There is no schema grant command in Oracle, but this routine lets you get close. Why no schema level

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August 4, 2020 Uncategorized

Automatically generate audit capture for tables

A weekend audit Often if you see the words “weekend audit” in a non-technical sense, it means that awkward moment

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July 21, 2020 Uncategorized

Completely free training for Oracle novices

At college/university, the learning path for a computing-related course often includes several coding languages, and occasionally some treatment of database

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June 1, 2020 Uncategorized

Code re-use in PL/SQL might just need SQL

I was doing some code review today of a PL/SQL package, and came across a routine to generate a list

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May 12, 2020 Uncategorized

Arbitrary length addition and subtraction

This one just for fun today. An AskTOM question came in about arbitrary length arithmetic because “NUMBER(38) was not enough”.

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April 2, 2020 Uncategorized

Active Data Guard – limitations on ROWTYPE

I had an AskTOM question come in with an issue trying to PL/SQL on an Active Data Guard (ADG) database

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